Re: how to check objects dependency??

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to check objects dependency??
Date: 2007-10-31 19:19:35
Message-ID: 20071031191935.GB3984@alvh.no-ip.org
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Jessica Richard wrote:
> I am trying to drop a user but it complained with the following message:
>
> ERROR: role "joe" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
> DETAIL: 1 objects in database Jan_test
> 1 objects in database Jan
>
> this user does not own any tables in those two databases. Is there any
> command I can use to check all the dependencies on this user?

Connect to those databases and issue the command again to see the
detail. When you are connected to a different database, you don't have
access to the other database catalogs, thus we cannot give you the
object names (only the fact that they exist).

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